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| 3cfd51a | Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey speck of a man compared with the ruthless magnificent fellow he had dreamed of being.... | Edith Wharton | ||
| 252f9f1 | I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is a hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits . . . and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 7c7d309 | But in a few years more perhaps there may be; for, deep within us as the ghost instinct lurks, I seem to see it being gradually atrophied by those two world-wide enemies of the imagination, the wireless and the cinema. To a generation for whom everything which used to nourish the imagination because it had to be won by an effort, and then slowly assimilated, is now served up cooked, seasoned, and chopped into little bits, the creative facul.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 086f924 | She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 4395d5f | but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... ("Afterward")" | countryside rural rural-life | Edith Wharton | |
| f67d6ea | Mr. Gryce was like a merchant whose warehouses are crammed with an unmarketable commodity. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 530e7b7 | All the long misery of his baffled past, of his youth of failure, hardship and vain effort, rose up in his soul in bitterness and seemed to take shape before him in the woman who at every turn had barred his way. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c5a711e | But hitherto she had been like some young captive brought up in a windowless palace whose painted walls she takes for the actual world. Now the palace had been shaken to its base, and and through a cleft in the walls she looked out upon life. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 5ce6cb1 | women never learn to dispense with the sentimental motive in their judgments of men. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 771edc2 | Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 18d815a | a certain measure of contempt was attached to men who continued their philandering after marriage. In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once. | Edith Wharton | ||
| a62f3be | But they're too shy to speak when my mother-in-law doesn't; sometimes they open their mouths to begin, but they never get as far as the first sentence. You must get used to an ocean of silence, and just swim about in it as well as you can. | Edith Wharton | ||
| f290ce9 | Something in truth lay dead between them--the love she had killed in him and could no longer call to life. But something lived between them also, and leaped up in her like an imperishable flame: it was the love his love had kindled, the passion of her soul for his. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 693d18a | She is still a bundle of engaging possibilities rather than a finished picture. Of the mother there is nothing to say, for that excellent lady evidently requires familiar surroundings to bring out such small individuality as she possesses. In the unfamiliar she becomes invisible; and Longlands and she will never be visible to each other. | Edith Wharton | ||
| aab71d5 | There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability which the long Starkfield winters had not yet extinguished. By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 29d432e | Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them--children, duties, visits, bores, relations--the things that protect married people from each other. We've been too close together--that has been our sin. We've seen the nakedness of each other's souls. | madness marriage | Edith Wharton | |
| 8900884 | Honorius Hatchard had been old Miss Hatchard's great-uncle; though she would undoubtedly have reversed the phrase, and put forward, as her only claim to distinction, the fact that she was his great-niece. For Honorius Hatchard, in the early years of the nineteenth century, had enjoyed a modest celebrity. As the marble tablet in the interior of the library informed its infrequent visitors, he had possessed marked literary gifts, written a se.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 2a2edf0 | She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 8b38a86 | But he could never be long without trying to find a reason for what she was doing . . . | lawrence-selden lily-bart the-house-of-mirth | Edith Wharton | |
| 7d9e957 | Oh, certainly, 'The Wings of Death' is not amusing," ventured Mrs. Leveret, whose manner of putting forth an opinion was like that of an obliging salesman with a variety of other styles to submit if his first selection does not suit." -- | Edith Wharton | ||
| 57d500a | A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all. | introversion | Philip Zaleski | |
| 2683185 | And it came to pass that in the hour of defeat Aragorn came up from the sea and unfurled the standard of Arwen in the battle of the fields of Pelennor, and in that day he was first hailed as king. And at last when all was done he entered into the inheritance of his fathers and received the crown of Gondor and the Sceptre of Arnor; and at midsummer in the year of the Fall of Sauron he took the hand of Arwen Undomiel, and they were wedded in .. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c7fff69 | Hush, hush! Good People! and good night!" said Gandalf, who came last. "Valleys have ears, and some elves have over marry tongues. Good night!" | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d3d858e | In the Wide World the Wood-elves lingered in the twilight of our Sun and Moon, but loved best the stars; and they wandered in the great forests that grew tall in lands that are now lost. They dwelt most often by the edges of the woods, from which they could escape at times to hunt, or to ride and run over the open lands by moonlight or starlight; and after the coming of Men they took ever more and more to the gloaming and the dusk. Still el.. | hobbit lord-of-the-rings tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| b41a937 | I am wounded," he answered, "wounded; it will never really heal." | wounded | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 8eed806 | Halflings! But they are only a little people in old songs and children's tales out of the North. Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' 'A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| f4b0172 | so they all left the path and plunged into the forest together. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2827f57 | Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 068218e | If you turn Hell upside down, you'll find 'Made in Germany' stamped on the bottom. | Joseph Loconte | ||
| 75dd072 | Belief in mysteries--all manner of mysteries--is the only lasting luxury in life. | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | ||
| 96d82f3 | We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own. | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | ||
| 7605557 | Therefore Morgoth came, climbing slowly from his subterranean throne, and the rumour of his feet was like thunder underground. And he issued forth clad in black armour; and he stood before the King like a tower, iron-crowned, and his vast shield, sable unblazoned, cast a shadow over him like a stormcloud. But Fingolfin gleamed beneath it as a star; for his mail was overlaid with silver, and his blue shield was set with crystals; and he drew.. | silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| bf32503 | Blunt the knives. Bend the forks. Smash the bottles and burn the corks. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 1367ff1 | The man Jack was, above all things, a professional, or so he told himself, | Neil Gaiman | ||
| 31f8940 | Cheer up ye saints of God, There's nothing to worry about; Nothing to make you feel afraid, Nothing to make you doubt; Remember Jesus saves you; So why not trust him and shout, You'll be sorry you worried at all, tomorrow, morning. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 8da6486 | My dear, you are in danger of being burned by your own flame. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 40567ed | Farewell!' he said to Gandalf. 'I go to find the Sun!' Then swift as a runner over firm sand he shot away, and quickly overtaking the toiling men, with a wave of his hand he passed them, and sped into the distance, and vanished round the rocky turn. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 66406d3 | Behind that, there was something else at work, beyond any design of the ring maker. I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was to find the ring, and by its maker. In which case you also were to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought. | J. R. R. Tolkien | ||
| be577cd | One ring to rule them all. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 35ef086 | These too in their time shall find that all that they do redounds at the end only to the glory of my work. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3c250c8 | The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that sort. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 54cbc13 | Satu Cincin 'tuk menguasai mereka semua, Satu Cincin 'tuk menemukan mereka semua, Satu Cincin 'tuk membawa mereka semua dan mengikat mereka dalam Kegelapan | the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0414402 | In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another. | nihilism | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| c0a082e | Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who have devoured her kin, then the ways of the Eldar are strange to Men. | sarcasm | J.R.R. Tolkien |